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From: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: gcc 1.29 vax: doesn't catch floating overflow in constant-folding
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Date: 10 Oct 88 10:22:05 GMT
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The following program yields "fatal signal 8":

    #define SQR(x) ((x)*(x))

    double x = 1.0e+36;
    double xxx = SQR (1.0e+36);

(Floats on the vax range up to 10**38 or so.)